Royce

Royce Ltd motors at Kidwelly Industrial Museum

Royce Ltd motor nameplate at Kidwelly Industrial Museum

Royce electric motor in the reserve collection at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry

DC generator providing power for a textile machine at Queen Street Mill Museum

1908. Glasgow Goods Yard with Royce crane.

1908. Glasgow Goods Yard with Royce crane.

1908. Glasgow Goods Yard with Royce crane.

1908 Royce crane, ex-Mirrlees, at Anson Engine Museum

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1909. An electrically driven monorail crane made by Royce of Manchester and erected by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co.

Cooke Street works.

of Hulme, later of Trafford Park, Manchester, electrical and mechanical engineers

1884 Company formed by Frederick Henry Royce

1891 The company was registered on 4 June as F. H. Royce and Co, to take over the business of electrical and mechanical engineers of the firm of the same name.

1899 F H Royce and Company was put into voluntary liquidation and reconstructed with an enlarged capital, re-registration taking place under the title of Royce Ltd on 17 October.

1903 Listed as 'Royce Limited. Electrical and mechanical engineers, makers of dynamos, meters, electrically driven cranes and hoists, arc lamps etc. Works - Cooke Street, Hulme. Branch works - Trafford Park'

1903 Began experiments with motor car manufacture and in the latter half of the year Royce began producing a 10 hp model with overhead valves. By the spring of 1904 had produced three cars.

1904 Royce decided to manufacture a car of his own which he did in a corner of the workshop. Two more cars were made. Of the three, which were called Royces and had two-cylinder engines, one was given to Ernest A. Claremont and the other sold to one of the other directors, Henry Edmunds and ultimately to C. S. Rolls. One car was registerd as AX 148.

1904 23rd December. Charles Stewart Rolls and Claude Goodman Johnson trading as C. S. Rolls and Co entered into an agreement to market the total output of the company; Rolls would make the bodywork. The cars ranged from a two-cylinder 10 hp chassis to a six-cylinder 30 hp model.

1906 March. Set up the Rolls-Royce company to produce cars, including acquiring the Cooke Street Works. Royce Ltd continued in business making cranes. In December a share issue funded the acquisition of C. S. Rolls and Co and enlargement of the works

1909 Listed as Royce Limited. "Electrical and mechanical engineers, makers of dynamos, meters, electrically driven cranes, hoists, capstans and winches etc. Registered office and works - Trafford Park Road, Trafford Park, Manchester"

1909 Electric 'monorail' jib crane for Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Forth Bank Works

1911 Listed as Royce Limited. "Electrical and mechanical engineers, makers of dynamos, motors, electrically driven cranes, hoists, capstans and winches etc. Registered office and works - Trafford Park Road, Trafford Park, Manchester"

1922 Manufactured electric cranes, electric capstans, electric winches, electric transporters, D.C. dynamos and motors, electric controllers and switchgear.

1932 Company acquired by Herbert Morris of Loughborough.

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